Matt Fritchman (born December 1, 1975), better known by the pen name Matt Fraction, is an Eisner Award-winning American comic book writer, known for his work as the writer of The Invincible Iron Man, The Immortal Iron Fist, Uncanny X-Men, and Hawkeye for Marvel Comics and Casanova and Sex Criminals for Image Comics.

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Writing for Comics and TV w/ Matt Fraction

Early life

Matt Fraction was born December 1, 1975 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He developed an affinity for telling stories as a child, and enjoyed reading both comic books and comic strips. The first comic he remembers buying was Batman #316 (Oct. 1979). Comic strips he enjoyed included Peanuts and Doonesbury. He became a regular, weekly comic reader around the time that the 1985–86 DC Comics storyline Crisis on Infinite Earths ended, though he found that storyline too bizarre and impenetrable to a new reader; as a result, he gravitated toward Marvel Comics, finding Spider-Man to be his favorite, along with other books such as Star Wars and G.I. Joe.

In the late 1990s Fraction worked as an employee at the Charlotte, North Carolina-based comics retailer Heroes Aren't Hard to Find.

Career

Fraction started creating comics with smaller publishers including AiT/Planet Lar and IDW Publishing. He became known early in his career for his creator-owned work on The Five Fists of Science and Casanova, before taking on a number of increasingly high-profile assignments for Marvel Comics.

Fraction wrote two columns for Comic Book Resources: "Poplife" and "The Basement Tapes", the latter with Joe Casey.

Fraction teamed with Ed Brubaker for a run on Marvel's The Immortal Iron Fist. The pair re-teamed on Uncanny X-Men for a short time, after which Fraction wrote the series solo until leaving it in 2011. He wrote The Mighty Thor and The Invincible Iron Man, the latter of which led to his consulting work on the set of the film Iron Man 2 and writing the Iron Man 2 video game that tied into that film sequel.

In 2011 Fraction wrote the Fear Itself limited series, which was the central part of the crossover storyline of the same name. In December 2011 he revived the series The Defenders with artist Terry Dodson and in August 2012 he started a new Hawkeye series with David Aja. As part of Marvel NOW!, Fantastic Four was relaunched in November 2012 with the creative team of Fraction and artist Mark Bagley and its spinoff series FF being produced by Fraction and artist Mike Allred. Fraction left both series due to other work commitments.

In February 2013, he was named on IGN's list of "The Best Tweeters in Comics", which described him as "the premier comics Twitter personality."

In 2013, Fraction co-created with Chip Zdarsky the Sex Criminals series for Image Comics. He and Christian Ward created the ODY-C series in 2014, a science-fiction retelling of the Odyssey with the characters' genders changed to women.

Personal life

Fraction is married to Kelly Sue DeConnick, a comic book writer and adapter of manga into English. They have two children, Henry and Tallulah.

Awards

2008 Eagle Award for Favourite Newcomer Writer

2009 Eisner Award for "Best New Series" for The Invincible Iron Man (shared with Salvador Larroca)

2010 PEN Center USA Literary Award for "Outstanding Body of Work"

2014 Harvey Award

"Best Single Issue or Story" for Hawkeye #11, "Pizza Is My Business" (shared with David Aja and others).

"Best New Series" for Sex Criminals (shared with Chip Zdarsky).

2014 Eisner Award

"Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)" for Hawkeye #11, "Pizza Is My Business" (shared with David Aja).

"Best New Series" for Sex Criminals (shared with Chip Zdarsky).

2016 Inkpot Award

Nominations

2008 Eisner Award

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot) for The Sensational Spider-Man Annual (shared with Salvador Larroca).

Eisner Award for Best New Series for The Immortal Iron Fist (shared with Ed Brubaker, David Aja and others)

2013 Harvey Award

Best Writer for Hawkeye

Best New Series for Hawkeye (shared with David Aja and others)

Best Continuing or Limited Series for Hawkeye (shared with David Aja and others)

Best Single Issue or Story for Hawkeye #1, "Lucky" (shared with David Aja and others)

2013 Eisner Award

Best Continuing Series for Hawkeye (shared with David Aja and others)

Best Writer for Hawkeye and Casanova: Avarita

2014 Harvey Award

Best Writer for Hawkeye

Best Continuing or Limited Series for Hawkeye (shared with David Aja and others)